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A collection of 3 issues

6a2826746ad51f06f489e188 2026-06-09

The Deck Was the Easy Part

I put together a deck for product and engineering leaders and barely struggled with the slides. When I dug into why, it wasn't about slides at all. I prioritize tools I can hand to an agent, and it means I get to stay in the narrative while the busywork happens around me.

6a21ae0289328a11f605308d 2026-06-04

99% Adoption and Still Stuck

A team can get to near-total AI adoption and still feel like things aren't moving. The tools changed. The jobs didn't. Here's the difference between the teams that pulled ahead and the ones who just made their old work faster.

6a049814f78e5b4c9406b785 2026-05-13

Jobs Are Fake

Your org chart still assumes marketing handles these things, engineering handles those. That mapping is from before. The lanes were always capacity, not rules. That capacity has come off, and the org charts haven't caught up.